The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-11-19


started In Colorado.
A s60,0O0 pearl necklace is for sale at q
New York jewelers..
AMERICA has more dollars invested In
diaries than in banks.
THERE are rubber gauntlets to save the
hands in dish-washing.
The newest Wrench fad among women 10
the study of astronomy.
THERE are said to he GAO widows, by nc
tual count, in Ooerlin, o.
De LEssEps says the Panama Canal will
be opened February 8, 1880.
CLosE-TRlMMED boards are being much
worn on New York youths.
The Grant monument fund in New York
has been swelled to S7,54SBl.
GENERAL BouLANGER's mother was o
Welsh woman named Griffiths.
THE public schools of the United States
give employment to 800, 600 teachers.
A Sl,5OO,O00 hre-proof theater is to re-
place Madison Square Garden, New York.
PRINcEss BEATRICE's baby Is the first
child OF royalty born in Scotland since
1000.
ALBEIT MUNoER Is the wcalthest bache-
lor in Chicago and has an annual income
Of s5OO, 600
THERE is talk of putting General Banks
at the head OF the National Soldiers Homo
st Togus, Me.
A RUSSIAN young lady has been con-
demned to lifelong Imprisonment for mar
rying sixteen husbands
Mrs. SACHS, the st. Louis cook who
threw the pancake at Mrs. Cleveland, is on
exhibition in a dime museum.
A MONUMENT is about to be erected in
Savannah, Ca, to the memory Of Sergeant
Jasper, of revolutionary fame
THE latest name for the theater-goer who
Is constantly going out and stepping on
everybody's toes is a gadwump.
LARGE quantities Of iron ore are being
shipped from Missouri to tennessee and
Alabama. 1t makes palpable mixture.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN says he will quit
this country and hereafter live in Canada
ifthe condemnen Anarchists are executed.
AN Italian astronomer announces as the
result OF recent investigation that the veg.
citation on the planet Mars is bright red in
color.
THE largest block of Barre (vt.) granite
ever quarried weighs fifty tons. 1t took
twenty days to haul it four miles on
rollers.
1T is stated that the smokestack Of the
Allentown thread mill, 227 feet high, will,
when finished, be the loftiest in the United
States
JOHN c. Enc, the New York bank wreck
er, has been buying property in Quebec,
evidently with the intention of settling
down there. -I
SNAKES six feet long with bright red
rings around their necks are reported to
have been seen recently on farm near
Decatur, Ill.
SEVEN thousand five hundred bushels OF
chestnuts were handled by the American
Express Company at Bradford, Pa, one
day recently.
IT took gang of Colorado thieves one
hour to rob the passengers on Denver
and Rio Grande train. Such dilatoriness
Is disgraceful.
YOUNG man who had been compelled
to marry . girl at jamestown, N. Y, shot
himself through the head as soon as the
ceremony was concluded.
II. I. SANFORD, the twelfth juror in the
Anarchist trial, and now a resident of st.
Paul, has received several letters lately
threatening his life, and goes constantly
armed.
WOMEN who can play the fiddle are all
the rage in Boston. The Hub folks now
frown on the banjo, and the squeak of the
catgut is heard in the houses of the ex-
clusives.
HENRY WATERsoN declares that ''the girl
who does not expect soma time or other to
ger husband and nurse baby ought to
be thrown in her infancy into the nearest
frog pond"
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY, of Illinois, was a
in arl o,.1, h.co
ing q lawyer. He fought in the Mexican
war, and was one of the California gold
diggers OF 40.
for the use of Lafayette, during his visit
TO this country in 1924, is owned in Chica.
20. 1t is quaint old ark hung on big
prings and wide straps.
Ex-GovERNoR ALGER, of Michigan, rldes
about the country in a private car, and sell
dom spends more than seven days in one
place. He makes his car his business office,
and does 81 900, 900 worth of trade in it an.
nually.
The English Church receives in tithes
about saO,OOO,OOO a year. or this amount
e5,OOO,OOO is expended in hospitals, schools,
church buildings, ETC., and the remaining
$l5,OOO,OOO goes to pay the salaries of tho
clergy. a
PERHAPS the most lucrative office in the
National Government, next to the Presi.
dency itself, is the clerkship of the Su-
preme Court ut Washington. It Yields an
annual income Of fees Of from sos, 600 to
$4,000.
DIVISION of labor has been carried to
such perfection in this country that it is
now possible to make complete reaper
every fifteen minutes, locomotive in a
day and three hundred watches in the
same time.
The Prince Of Wales has the credit of
making every effort to ingratiate himself
into the favor OF his royal mamma, and,
like the gallant Englishman that he is
writes to her daily when he is away from
the shadow OF her parental wing.
IRWIN BLEIcHART, who runs a shifting
engine at Lebanon, Pa, claims to be the
youngest locomotive engineer in the coun-
try, II not In the world. He is only Is, and
has been at the business two years.
THE healthy Massachusetts lady, aged
ninety-three, who has eaten four hearty
meals every day since she was old
enongh to 90 to the table, is no doubt
thanking the Lord that she is near an
other Thanksgiving day and Christmas.
THE most juvenile-looking minister in
New York City is Rev. Richard D. Harlan,
Of the First Presbyterian Church. He Ia
the SON Of Justice Harlan, of tho United
States Supreme Court He hasn't been
~ thuo On, ,t..a 4.